Civil Engineering
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Key areas within the Civil Research Group include:
- Fibre reinforced polymer shapes and systems for new build
- Transfer of research into design guidance for codes of practice
- Experimental dynamic analysis of civil engineering structures
- Dynamic loading induced by humans and their interaction with structures
- Movement of people in crowds
- Resilient steel and steel-concrete structures for multi-hazard mitigation
- Steel-concrete composite bridges
- Computational form-finding, patterning, and load analysis of fabric structures
- Advanced computational modelling for the fracture of ductile materials
- Structural health monitoring for asset managment
- Mixing and transport of solutes and fine sediments within water flows
- Quantifying dispersion mechanisms
- Hyporheic flow: riverbed exchange mechanisms
- Mixing in nearshore coastal regions
- Application of numerical methods in geotechnical engineering
- Discrete Element Method analyses for the constitutive modelling of granular soils
- Properties of soils subjected to high strain rates
- Fluid flow in confined geomaterails
- Investigation of debris flows and landslide propagation
- Slope stability
- Sustainable technologies
- Rainwater harvesting